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J SHORT OF FUNDS Two County Treasurers Charged ) With Heavy Shortages IN THEIR ACCOUNTS llesnlt of InvmtiKtttionN Made by Comptroller General Jones?The Action of (iov. If. P. Ansel Taken Upon Reports Submitted After W'wks of Investigation. *aColumbla, Dec. 10.?Comptroller leral Jones has reported to CJov. XT' Ansel the result of an examination of the books of the treasurer of Hampton and the treasurer of Edgeflnl'l /Ininilliii! n Tl/I frcitn tho fil'llt'lis JIIVIVI V UUIIl n D UMU I I V/?II VMV ..n ... v... submitted it Jh charged that there Is a shortage of $7,723.46 in the accounts of J. T. Pattison, treasurer of Edgefield oounty, and that there is a shortage of $ 1 7,670.79 with J. <1. Eangford, the treasurer of Hampton county. The report of the Hampton examination is given as follows: "To His Excellency, Gov. Martin F. Ansel, Columbia, R. C. v"Rir: Tho annual settlement for taxes of the fiscal year 1907 of llampton county was made as of date June 30, 1908, and was checked tip and balanced to October 24, 1 908 showing cash balances due by Mr. .1. C. Langford, county treasurer, as follows: ('-axli Statement. June 30, 1 908, cash balance due State treasurer $ 2,665.71 June 3 0, 190 8, cash balance due county funds 13,812.24 June 3 0, 1908, cash balance duo school funds. 9,7 9 6.05 Amount of money borrowed since June 3 0, 1908 4,000.00 Collection dispensary funds since June 3 0, 1 908 2,486.99 Fines, licenses and costs since June 30, 1908 .. 267.82 Superintendent of education - 87.4 1 Cash collected from taxes from 1908 5 898 Total cash balance, June 3 0, and col lections to October 2 4, 1908 $33,170.1 8 Disbursements. Paid State troaBuner $ 369.20 ?Pnld county claims 7,022.70 Paid school claims . . . . 934.97 Total disbursements to Oct. 24 $ 8,326.87 Cash balance due October 24, 1909, State and county funds $24,843.3 1 "Qpunty Treasurer Lnngford ac counts for the above cash as follows : Cash in office . $ 807.49 Claims Heaufort county, . 60.00 Chocks 4 9.35 Cash in Hank of Hampton, cashier's certificate . 3,157.00 Cash in Hampton Loan Exc h ange Hank, cashier's certifier" to .. .. 18,2 65.02 CasiTVin Hank of Hrunson, cashier's certificate . . . 2,544.75 Total cash on hand and in bank, October 24, 1908 $24,884.21 Excess cash on hand and in bank, Octo l?cr l' \, i 5?u?n $ iu.iiu "On the 17th day of December a telephone message was received at this 'flflice from Mr. H. O. Bowden, c.u <yor Qf (j10 Hampton Loan and Kxchange bank, stating in substance that the certificate of $18,2?>5.02 given October 2 4 was found to be incorrect, there being a difference of from $13,000 to $14,000. The cashier was asked to explain how it was possible for such a difference to remain undiscovered to this late elate. No satisfactory explanation was given by him. I immediately wired Hon. Giles L. Wilson, bank 1 examiner, to come to Columbia at once. I acquainted Mr. Wilson with all facts in connection with <this i case, and requested that he proceed to Hampton at once and make an examination of the Hampton Loan SUBSCi \ and Exchange bank with reference to the county treasurer's account. It appears from the report of the bank examiner, which is made a part of tills report, and other records in connection with Mr. J. C. Langford, county treasurer, that he ia short in his cash $17,670.70. The check drawn by J. C. Langford, Oc tober 24, 1008, wus evidently du plicated in the certificates given by the Hank of Hampton and Hampton Iamn and Exchange bank, thus mak ing tho shortxgo as above stated. "I report this matter to your excellency in order that you may take such action as you deem proper. "Respectfully submitted, "A. W. JONES, "Comptroller General." The Edgefield Report. The report to the comptroller general on the Edgefte'd investigation goes fully iuto the figures and shows the books to be badly out of balance. The letter sent Gov. Ansel is as follows: "To His Excellency, Gov. Martin F. Ansel. "Dear Sir: I have had made an examination of the books and tee-ousts of Mr. J. II. Haltlwanger, county auditor, and Dr. J. H. PaUlson, county treasurer of Edgefield county, and find from the report of Messrs. E. B. Wilson, cnief clerk, and Carlton W. Sawyer, auditing clerk, employed by this office, that tne county auditor's office shows carelessness, , neglect, errors and omissions both *u the duplicates, abstracts and annual settlements of that office. "In the settlement for the taxes of the fiscal year 1905 errors, omissions and overcrodlts were found aggregating the Bum of $1,819.42. Undercredlts were discovered 1? thi sum of $84 1.52, leaving a net chargs of $97 7.90 to be accounted for by Treasurer Pattison. "In the settlement for the taxes of the fiscal year 1 906 errors, omlssons, ov-ercredits and under charges were discovered amounting to the sum of $2,269.80; undercredlts, omissions and errors wore found aggregating $525.4 9; leaving a net balance to be accounted for by Treasurer Pattison of $ 1,74 4.21. "In the settlement of the taxes of 1 907 overcrodlts and undo-chs rves wore found aggregating the sum of $729.85, and net undercredits of 7 4 cents, leaving a net balance to be accounted for by Treasurer Pattison for 1 907 of $729.1 1. Net balance of errors to bo charged to County Treasurer PaUlson on account of taxes brought forward for 1 905 of $977.90 and on account of taxes brought forward for 1906 of $ 1,7 44.3 1, tho total charges to county treasurer In excess of charges in original settlement made by auditor and treasurer are $3,451.32. "The accounts of Treasurer Pattison were checked down to October 19, 1908, and the following balance found: Balance duo the State.. $ 1,866.7 1 Balance due the county.. 8,316.96 Balance due the schools. 3,936.68 j (juh amount (nie . . . . * h.izu.jo Credits. By amount of cash in office . $ 139.27 Balance, cash in Hank of .Johnston 1,261.48 Balance, cash in Hank of Edgefield 1,155.67 Balance, cash in Bank of Trenton 219.97 County certificates on hand 3,712.64 $6,489.03 Loss taxes collected account of 1908 92.14 6,396.89 Leave a deficit of $7,7 23.16 "It appears that County Treasurer J. T. Pattison is short in his accounts the sum of $7,723.46, that amount being the difference between the amount of funds with which ho is properly chargeable and the amount of cash and evidences of cash he had on hand October 19. 1908. "I Uinrnfrd'O ronnpt tlir? moHnr your excellency in order that you may take such action as you may deem proper. "In closing this report permit me to say that the financial affairs of Kdgefleld county were found to he In a deplorable condition. The floating and bonded county debt were found to be $108,833.88. "The schools of the county are j in*ink run on crecm. n win require It Is said, $15,000 to place the , schools on a cash basis. "These matters will be covered < more fully in my report to the honorable the general assembly. i Respectfully, "A. W. JONES, ] "Comptroller General." i ii w * % HOW WE GOT IT |! I I One Feature of the So-Called 1 r Panama Canal Scandal < i V THAT NEEDS PROBING ? 1, a The IjouiNvillo Oouricr-Journul Dincum* tlio Republic of Puuauut, 1 v How it Wiw Formed and Ameri- J ran Partclpntion In the Kveut on j the 1st hums at the Time. v t The Louisville Courier-Journal o says tho story of how the United * States came into possession of the 0 Panama canal ought to he of interest to all readers. It is neither so tech- ^ nical nor so complicated, as to put t! any strain upon the popular mind, t On the contrary, It is perfectly simple. I The New French Company having s acquired for twelve millions the e rights of the Old French Company, * and sold these to tho United States ' for forty millions, a treaty between < the United States and tho republic of Columbia was all that was needed to confirm the deal. Mr. Hay < was our Secretary of State. Mr. Herran was the Minister of Colum- ' bla at Washington. They made a 1 treaty known as the Ilay-llerran 1 treaty which, promptly ratified by 1 our Senate, was sent to Bogota to 1 he ratified by Columbia. This done 1 u Btock-Jobbing Bchcnie, begun in * Paris and successfully exploited In p Washington, would bo completed, vastly enriching its promoters, Mr. 1 Edward Lampre, Mr. W. N. Crom- i well and Mr. Phillips Hunau Verilla 1 roprosenting a blind-i>ool of these. 11 Being a blind-pool, with its head- ? quarters abroad, it will not be possl- 1 ble for the American Congress to got p at the bottom of the. factB. Hut, mark the sequel. 1 The "act to authorize the construe- 1 tion of the canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Paeittc 1 ocean," approved June 28, 19 02, * authorized the president to obtain v "by treaty"?and in no other way? control of Buch territory "from Co- 1 lumbla," as might be necessary for v that puropse; and it proved also 1 that if he should be unablo to do c so "within a reasonable time" and H upon ' reasonable terms," be should then proceed to acquire the necessary teritory from Costa Rica and Nicaraugua. This act, known as the ] Spooner Act, appropriated ten million dollars to be used by tho president "toward the project contemplated by either route." Let it be borne in mind that this was the * hiW which authorized him "to pay f for the property of the New Pana- a ma Canal Company forty million dol- a lars," when he "shall have obtained f by treaty the necessary territory from Columbia." * Of course it did not contemplate any arrangement with Panama di rect, but was based on the likeli- a hood that the treaty authorized by s it, signed by Messrs. Ilerran and Hay, and ratified by the senate on March 1 7, 1 903, would be ratified * by Columbia. rl ne act did not authorize the president to employ the 0 navy of the United tSates to "pre- * vent the landing of Columbian ^ troops within fifty miles of Panama," which he subsequently did, or to commit any other act hostile to 0 Columbia. It did not authorize him under any circumstances to wage * war, but required him, in case of ? failure to come to terms with Columbia, to seucre another route for the ^ canal. In October, 1903, Columbia, acting strictly within her rights, rejected the Hay-Herran treaty. The work done by Messrs. Lampre, Cromwell and Ilunau Varina, was about to be wrecked in port, as it were. Then the first overt act. in the Panama "revolution" was performed by the administration at Washington, n and not upon the Isthmus of Pana- ft ma. It was in the direct Interest of ii the New Panama Canal Company, n On November 2, 1003, the gunboat K Nashville reached Colon, in the Do- t< partment of Panama, Republic ol bi Columbia, having been ordered there ci by our government; and on the same a day an order was sent from the tl Navy Department at Washington to hi the Nashville, the Hoston and the Dixie, also in loose waters, containing these instructions: "Prevent landing of any armed ft force with hostile intent at any point N within fifty miles of Panama. Gov- at eminent forces reported approachIng the Isthmus in vessels. Prevent ht landing, if in vonr liidcrinent laml lag would precipitate conflict." This meant war with the "government forces" of Columbia, If it It meant anything. From this point a things went forward at a lively pace, t.c \t 2:40 p. m., the very next day, cc November 3, 1003, the assistant sec- cx rotary of State cabled from Washing- te (V TO ' 9 on to tho consul general of tho Tnitod States at Panama, which Is ess than "fifty miles" from Colon, inil on the opposite sliio of the wthmus. as follows: "Uprising on sthinus reported. Keep department romptly and fully Informed." The onsul general replied: "No tiprishk yet, reported there will be toilght;" showing that ho had notice f the Hecret revolutionary program. Durlug the day tho Columbian varshlp Cartngena arrived at Coon. "within fifty miles of Panama," n<4 Cenerals Tobal and Amaya lundd, and sought transportation for heir troops to Panama city. This rat) denied by tho officials of the 'a nam a Railroad Company; but the wo officers were allowed to go to 'anainu without their troops. They tore thrown Into prisou ut Panama hat evening. This act of the "revlutionista" had boon anticipated by he navy department. The next step if tho "revolutionists" was to orgailze a junta und appoint a mulatto lamed Molleudos to be mayor of ?olen, and thus to "precipitate eoulict" with "government forces" u# hat point immediately. Moilendes returned to Colon from 'auamu on the 4th; and on the ame day Commander Hubbard land<1 blue Jackets from the Nashville, ind thus gave moral and Indirectly nilltary support to the Insurrection m Columbian soil. November C, the Republic of Paulina was recognized by the president >f the United States. The same day lluuau Varilla, a Cr?"?tieb Mtl'/nn on.l nl'l-.t' ? v-? ?? . . ..... . .>><.1 t! Uiui kilK'l 1)1 L HO I" il 11 una blind-pool, was appoiuted by he Panama junta to bo minister of *anama to the United States; he, v party to the conspiracy, being al eady cocked and primed and on the ;round, a veritable "Johnny on the i pot." There was not the least quibble, >r dealy. Hunau Varilla and Hay proceeded at onco to prepare a reaty. Immediately after the, junta ippointed I)r. Amador and Mr. Boyd is commissioners to negotiate a reaty with the United States. These jentlemen arrived in Washington on he 13th. All they had to do was o indorse the treaty which had aleady been prepared by Bunau Varila and Hay, and which was signed he 2 2nd day of January following t is needless to add, that these voro done in plain violation of the Jpoonor Act, amounting to a usur>atlon by the president of war power ested exclusively in congress, being n point of fact, lawless in kind and pen to overy manner of reasonable uispicion. * IW-aped a Rich Harvest, ^uko Palmist Robbed Those Who Took His Advice. Atlanta, Dec. 16.?Tho police of his city are anxious to locate "Pro fHsor i< raiiK west, alias Prof. May, illeged palmist, medium and reader, igainst whom charges of thoft were lied hy several persons. He is alleged to have prevailed lpon his subjects to hand over to ilm articles of Jewelry, money, etc , o he placed in ?a bag fastened iround their necks and worn until uch time as lie might direct. Following West's disappearance rom the city this week several of lis subjects opened tHo "conjur tags, and, to their dismay, instead >f finding the articles or casli which hey were led to believe the "Proessor" placed therein, they otind wads of paper, etc. ( One victim, Levi Armstrong, laims that he lost three $100 bills ( iy this process, while Miss Jessie laley says that West robbed her f two diamond rings and a diamond irooch valued a| $200. Another roinan alleges that West "treated" * er at her residence, and as a roult a lot of silverware is missing. ATTEMPT ASSAULT. , I ?n Young Girl in Street of New . 1 York City. 1 New York, Doe. 1 7.?A scene lore often enacted South of Mason inl Dixon's line occurred in Harlem o i 170th street last night when a j egro seized fifteen-year-old Minnie ley and attempted to drag her In> vacant lot. The girl struggled ravely and her screams drew a s owd. The negro fiend pursued by s mob, but escaped. The girl'3 t iroat and arms were lacerated dur- r ig the struggle. t e Fieiul Hanged. H Charlotte, Dec. 18.?Will Graham, negro, was hanged at Concord, s . C., today for atempted criminal a isanlt on Miss Pearl Tucker, a I xtecn-year-old white girl of Ca- g irrus county. * v (iocs Up for Life. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 15.?Thomas rldsong, slayer of Dr. A. B. Fltts, a prominent physician of Ilazlehurst, f iday entered a plea of guilty in ac- h >rdance with an agreement between e >unsel and was given a life sennce in tho penitentiary. n me hor NIGHT RIDERS CRIME KKIjAT!-:I> BY TAYIJOIC, TIIK A(?KI> LAWYKK \Vln> Asked (lie ltidern to Spare Kankin and Kill Him IIihiium' He Was t)Ul While the Other Young. Union City, Tonn., Doc. 19.?Following hl? caution to the press yesterday not to print the testimony in the night rider cases, Judge Jones today cautioned the ministers of local churches not to refer to the coses in their sermons on Sunday sluco jurors might be present. lie took no further action regarding the press, although he conferred personally with the correspondents of several State papers, impressing upon tnem tin4 necessity of following out the court orders. The first witness was Col P. Z. Taylor, who was the companion of Capt. Kankin on the iiik'hf <>r murder of Capt. Rankin. He is a vet? ran of the Confederate army ami a wealthy man. Col. Taylor and Capt. Rankin went to Reel foot lake to lease some land to Carpenter. They drove over the proposed property on the night of October Ik. and left orders for horses for another trip t ho day following. Then they ret irod. Col. Taylor related the story of his experience the night Rankin was murdered. He said he and Rankin were tak< n from the hotel. Rankin was led under a tree when a rope was adjusl/ed and 'thrown over u fork of the tree. "Give him time to pray,' said a ight rider. ' have attended to that," was Rankin's quiet reply. Rankin then was raised from the ground until his toes scarcely touched the ground. "Yon are choking me, gentlemen; I pray you to let me down.' Some one fired a shot, the witness said, whlcn was instantly followed by a fusillade, most of the night riders llring into the air, however. Taylor told his captors he was tlr od and wanted to sit. down. Ho crouched tk> his knees bready to spring, and wnen the firing stopped he jumped Into the waters of the slough. The llring was Imrtiedlatoly renewed. Taylor dived, but heard bullets strike the water. He swam > a log and clung to It while bullets struck It like hall. When all ?- - " ?.uu miikkik ceased no swan' to the opposite sitH> of the lako and took to the woods. After tolling of the hardships ho endured during his wanderings Taylor said ho hid in a canebrako until hirst drove him out and into the i rms of his friends. Taylor suffered from delusions during his wanderings, seeing bands of masked men. Just before the night riders killed Rankin Col. Taylor said: "Gentlemen, I am old man. 1 can not expoet to live many years more. Ry killing me you will not be cheating me of much, but Capt. Rankin is a young man with many years before him. Do not kill him." The leader curtly replied, "Shut up." The aged witness made a most profound impression. He was asked mly one question on cross examina- j lion; did ho recognize any of the riders positively the night of the rime? He did not. * ROW AIIOLT A DOG Unused Killing of One Man and ( Wounding Anotlier. I Ooldsboro, N. C., Dec. 17.?News cached here today from Dudley, In t his county, that Ira Hatch, a prom- 1 nent resident of that place, had ' >een shot and killed by Badger J. , lowdon, mayor of Dudley. Mowden is in bed from wounds re- t eived immediately after the shoot- ( ng from a shot gun in the hands f the dead man's son. About 1 o'clock this morning ome one passed Hatch's house and hot his dog. Hatch and his son i ook shotguns and went out to econnoiter and some distance on he streets met Bowden, whom the Ider Hatch immediately accused of hooting his dog. Hot words ensued and Bowden f hot Hatch through the heart with i pistol and theronnon the vnimcor latch shot Hod won with his shot , tin, hut inflicting only flesh f ,'OUIHlH. ( ( Horses are Humeri. ( Indianapolis, Doc. 17.*?In a flro j t the stock yards Wednesday SO < torses wore cremated, two large ( lams were burned and other prop- \ rty destroyed. ( The loss is $50,000, Causo of fire l lot known. j > RY HER) SHOOTS BROKER Arrest Follows Desperate Struggle With Clerk of Victim. TELLS WHY HE SHOT CltiitiiM llntKor HofuHrni to Pay Kim for His Invention Hut Decline* to IHwloso Nature of Device?<Yowd Almut New York Curb Market Threaten* Violence to Inventor. New York, Dec. 19?Henry I*. Huydam, a mlulng stock broker, member of the curb stock market and an Alderman of IMalnfteld, N. J., was shot und dangerously wounded In biR office at No. 119 Broad street today by John C. Immsden, an Inventor, who claimed that Huydam refused to nav him mnnov < /?? ? ? ?*? .. w..- J *\/? %\tl IIIvent Ion. Lumsden was arrested after making a d^pernto strugglo with h clerk employed by Suydum. Lumsden assorted that ho II red tho shot In uelfdofonoo. Trading In tho curb market was temporarily suspended as Lumsden was being takon from tho building to police headquarters and a crowd gathered, threatening violence upon the inventor. They wore avoided by tho police, however. Lumsden would not discuss bis invention or disclose what claim ho had against Huydam. Suydam's recovery is doubtful, lie made a statement to tho coroner In which he said he was a director In an electric vibrator company, In which Lumsden owned dtock ; that the company was in financial difficulties, and that Huydam obtained a loan by pledging Lumsdon's stock ih collateral. Notes were given to Lumsden with the assurance that they would be taken up by tho earnings of the company, but today Immsden demanded payment under pain of death. Lumsden told tho police ho was a native of Knleigh, N. C. '1 no strugglo in the window of Suydam's ofllce was witnessed by at least 200 curb brokers and others Pun in?pt o/l w I 1* * i. ~ * * v, "mi uiu iiiarxei, I>111 ' was 8Upt>OB0d to bo a bit of hors** play until the shots were hoard and glass wiih broken, when the brokers rushed Into the office, as Lumsden was led from the office there were 1,000 men waiting him In the street and the police had a hard time for a few minutes protecting him. Lumsden wild Suydarn owed him $000, for a long time and he needed the money. Ho added "He gave me notes for money which he hr.d raised on collateral which I had glv4 n hi in. I asked for the monoy frequently and this morning went down with the expectation of getting it. I was told to wait until after the market had opened and I sat dowi. The three men Jumped on me and I picked up a pistol from somewhere and shot." VEHY HAD DEATH. Lad Killed While Carrying Letter to Santa Clans. New York, Dec. 17.?The body of !i frail little fellow, apparently about ton years old, lies in a inilice station here today last night under tho t P,W.1.U yji i\ iruney car near tho branch postofllce in Third avenue near Fifty-second strec-t, while on (lis way to mall a letter to Santa [Jlaus. As he breathed his last under he wheels, his hand stretched forth md the pitiful letter was seen by he crowd. A bystander seized it md it was dropped in the postofllce icfore the boy expired. He ran di-eetly in front of the car, evidently ivraped in thought about his letter. The niotorman was held on a .echinal charge of homicide. No >ne in the neighborhood seemed to enow who the child was, but ho irobably will be identified today. WAXTHD TO C'iC) TO IIAPKS. \n<] Doubtless He (Jot llis Want Supplied. Charlotte, X. C., Dec. 17.?Henry larvey, a negro, who was hanged it Uqftklngham, X. C., today for nurder, refused the attentions of tho ninisters who approached liiin this norning to administer spiritual com'ort, telling them that ho desired o go to hell for a special puropse. !)n the march to the gallows a ihlckcn flew over tho heads of tho >arty and the condemned man exclaimed, laugHMngly: "Somebody iatch that chicken." Harvey's crimo vas the slaying of Hugh Price, also colored, at Rockingham last summer, doth the deceased and his murders vere from Roanoke, Virginia. 1LD